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WTF are all US schools like that? With all that security it looks like it was filmed in an airport
Granted it's been a bit since I've been in highschool but mine didn't remotely have that level of security. We had a rent-a-cop show up maybe twice a week who did breathalyzer tests as people came into the school. There were two entrances though so people just went to whichever one they weren't at. They also tried having a drug dog come in every so often but we revolted and all the students started putting open bags of poppy seeds and dog treats in our lockers so that didn't last long lol
the poppy seeds and dog treats are a genius idea. if I could I would pet the dog as often as possible
Overpopulated schools with underpaid teachers and a broad culture of "radical individualism" and a school system designed more to occupy children with preparing for work instead of teaching them anything, along with rampant, petty lawsuits from families of children over utter nonsense have led to the US having an abysmal, almost prison-like aesthetic for public education.
Combine all this with a culture that revolves around violence as a glorified solution to problems while also reinforcing division between people and everything's a hotbed for tension and hate and shootings.
We could probably legitimately solve a LOT of America's problems if we used our schools for actual teaching and paid the staff and teachers properly so kids could get actual knowledge, free meals and a sense of safety, but that's not what the corporations want - they want us dumb, numb and isolated from each other.
Because we have school shootings all the damn time. It still won't stop them from happening but it's not like we're gonna go after the source of the problem and ban guns anytime soon. Security theater is the best thing administrations can do and the kids are those who end up suffering the most out of it.
And we can't go after the guns because patriots are going to use them in case the government ever starts doing tyrannical things like grabbing people off the streets without due process, killing protesters, breaking into houses without warrants, or threatening the voting system.
If any of that happens sometime in the future the good ol' boys will be ready to protect the Constitution and we'll understand that all the dead kids were worth it.
Cops at schools often escalate problems and use excessive force on children.
They're part of the youth control complex. They exist to criminalize children, creating a new generation of victim they can use to justify their continued existence. Fuck the police.
They're just another polyp spurting from the tumor that is our current system. 🤷🏼♂️
America has had cops in schools for 20 years and school shootings have only gone up. Save the money, defund useless cops.
School Resource Officers became common before Columbine, starting in black schools in the 1980s. (It’s America, did you think this history wouldn’t be racist as hell?)
Cory Doctorow has pointed out that if you want to see what is planned for white middle income people, look at how prisoners are treated; the same thing can be said about schools in poor neighborhoods. Now having cops handle disciplinary issues at schools is just the standard.
Largely because the only version of government spending Americans are okay with is for cops. Police spending takes up 30-45% of most municipal budgets in the "land of the free".
Doug Ford is trying to get that into Ontario schools.
I wish a high schooler would punch Doug Ford.
My schools were not but I'm a 30-something year old man. I want to tell you no but there was a shooting at my nephew's school. Granted his school is in quite close to Columbine so that may have been a factor.